(Photo Source: Patricia Ryall Krueger)
Patricia is in the front row, 4th from the right in the white dress and brown cape.
The Ryall family is listed as living in Somers
on the 1930 and 1940 US Federal Census.
February, 2022
Patricia is the daughter of Ernest V. and Henrietta Ryall. Ernest V. Ryall was the County Agent in Kenosha, WI for ~31 years. A UW graduate, he oversaw the transformation of Kenosha County's agriculture to a truck farming economy. He was a former president of the National Association of County Agents, wrote a column for the Kenosha News, and was a World War I Veteran with three purple hearts and the Silver Star. He married Henrietta L Achtenberg, who had published in 1922 a classic research study (still cited 100 years later) with UW limnology Prof. A Pearse) on the Feeding Habits of Lake Perch. They had 4 children.
READER REQUEST
If anyone can identify any students in this photo, please email Jackie at
somershistory@wi.rr.com
